Bay Area housing
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Bay Area | 2 Comments »Another sterling post from Burbed.com: WOW! Everything looks so much classier when you have columns! It’s like the whitehouse - it’s classy because it has columns! Man, this totally blows the last columned house on Burbed out of the water! If you ...
Clarke and Dawe explain the sub-prime meltdown
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »Aussie humour at its best.
Random amusing link of the day – Kasper Hauser
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Random link | 1 Comment »Was sent this by a work colleague. While there is some dross, there are some incredibly hilarious moments on the Kasper Hauser website. The SkyMaul and Wedding Announcements come highly recommended.
Apple’s take on brainstorming
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Usability | No Comments »One thing I found quite difficult when transitioning from an engineer to a designer was the idea that blue-sky brainstorming was okay. I remember during one of my first brainstorming sessions, we were trying to come up with a novel ...
Google Calendar Sync now available – I’m updating my list
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Web products | No Comments »In a previous post about Google product experiences, I noted that Google Calendar wasn't quite there yet on my "everyday use" list, thanks to syncing. My wife just shared a link with me from the official Google Blog regarding a new ...
Wikipedia article of the day – Banach-Tarski Paradox
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous, Random link | No Comments »As found from a commenter on Hacker News, the Banach-Tarski Paradox is described as thus: The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into several non-overlapping pieces, ...
The Consumerist should stop giving a voice to the entitled.
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues | No Comments »I love the Consumerist. Honest I do. But all too often the 'problem consumers' are making it their soapbox. I'm all for the little guy getting a leg-up against corporations, but there are people who try to ...
Is there anything Wikipedia doesn’t know? The Palace of the Soviets
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous, Random link | No Comments »Through Google Reader, to BoingBoing, to Modern Mechanix, I found the following Wikipedia article detailing the Palace of the Soviets, which I found fascinating. The 30s was a heady time for large scale architecture in Europe. Albert Speer ...
When geeks bite back
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Bay Area, Rants, Tech issues | 1 Comment »Very interesting article on news.com about Sarah Lacy's interview of Mark Zuckerberg, from Facebook. I've seen some pretty atrocious interviews, keynotes, panels and presentations in my time, but this is right up there when you think of the scope. ...
Google Reader and other Google products
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Rants, Site recommendations | 1 Comment »Miles has been a long time fan of Google Reader, but it's only been recently that I converted to using it full time. I found that I was visiting the same blogs several times a day to see what was new. ...
